The World's Biggest Aggregate Dragline with North American Mining

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Aaron Witt

Aaron Witt

Күн бұрын

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@plazatowing
@plazatowing 2 жыл бұрын
I don’t understand why you have such quality film work and only show us three minutes of it. Would love to see more
@AaronWitt
@AaronWitt 2 жыл бұрын
this was a tricky one because we can't publicly share most of it... Trying to warm the mining industry up to the youtube thing still
@pathtouch1
@pathtouch1 2 жыл бұрын
@@AaronWitt lol worried MSHA is a KZbin fan I bet. You know it’s a mine when you chock the front and rear of your rental car. Make sure your trash cans have lids too!
@plazatowing
@plazatowing 2 жыл бұрын
@@AaronWitt understandable. I would definitely take the audience's advice. I went through the same thing on my channel. I thought short-cut videos were the move but boy was I wrong. Keep it up man!
@danmcclaren5436
@danmcclaren5436 10 ай бұрын
@@AaronWitt Interesting...I recently moved to Miami and been trying to learn more about these limestone quarries/lakes, but very little is available online even though its a very old operation. Very "quiet" industry for sure!
@antr7493
@antr7493 2 ай бұрын
Listen to his podcast if you want more. Just as interesting
@CAT972
@CAT972 2 жыл бұрын
This needs to be an hour long I know there's a LOT to see there
@jonlowe8727
@jonlowe8727 2 жыл бұрын
I'd prefer longer videos if possible
@AaronWitt
@AaronWitt 2 жыл бұрын
working on it. Most of our newer stuff will be much longer. This was an old one we never got around to editing
@JonathanGonzalez-pt5uf
@JonathanGonzalez-pt5uf 2 ай бұрын
Just started working here at Cemex close to 6 months ago, most likely the quarry you were in in the beginning of the video. North American mining works the 8500’s we have here, I believe its around 3-4 that they have on this site. Really dope 🤙🏼🤙🏼
@Nathankraml
@Nathankraml Жыл бұрын
Listened to the latest podcast and I had to come back and watch this video again!
@gumballer133
@gumballer133 Жыл бұрын
Growing up 2hr from Big Muskie, I definitely have a thing for big Draglines.
@tech99070
@tech99070 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I came to this video because I didn't know how a drag line works in action and after watching this, I still don't!
@AaronWitt
@AaronWitt 2 жыл бұрын
awesome I'm glad you enjoyed it
@TomokosEnterprize
@TomokosEnterprize 10 ай бұрын
Oh how I love BIG ! This fits the bill quite nicely.
@zIHated
@zIHated 2 жыл бұрын
Yessir! Was just talking about you coming out on seeing our draglines on your insta helll yeah
@fedup3582
@fedup3582 3 ай бұрын
The marion 8200 is not the largest dragline. The 8200 runs a bucket in the 80 cubic yd range. A marion 8750 dragline will often run a 120 cubic yd bucket. The Ursus Major dragline, a Bucyrus Erie dragline, located at the Black Thunder coal mine in Wyoming, runs a bucket with a capacity of 160 cubic yds. When I was working there, they got in a 175 yd bucket for the dragline. It made big news on the front page in local newspapers, but the bucket didn't last. They ended up going back to a 160 cubic yard bucket.
@alanlahay8693
@alanlahay8693 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, 2 huge ones in operation in the larger coal mines of Alberta, and a few smaller ones in museums
@ЕЛКОРДОБЭСТОРЕРО
@ЕЛКОРДОБЭСТОРЕРО Жыл бұрын
This is relevant in the US. Entrepreneurs are not shy about investing.
@767aviation6
@767aviation6 Жыл бұрын
I saw these down south from where I am in FL. They are incredible
@shaunsaunders5998
@shaunsaunders5998 2 жыл бұрын
Willie with Palm Beach AG runs a hell of an operation!
@AaronWitt
@AaronWitt 2 жыл бұрын
Register for the Dirt World Summit NOW! dirtworld.com/dirt-world-summit Has anyone ever seen a dragline in real life?
@jonathanlanglois2742
@jonathanlanglois2742 2 жыл бұрын
There isn't any plausible use for that kind of machinery in Québec. We dig down 10 feet and we've got rock so hard that there's no way a drag line could ever hope to dislodge it. That rock is between 2.6 and 3.6 billion years old. The typical mining operation uses explosives to blast the rock out and a front end loader with a fleet of trucks. The larger mining operations use large shovels.
@johnnycan1990
@johnnycan1990 2 жыл бұрын
yes I work on one at NARM we operate 4 of them and the biggest is next door at black thunder BE 2570 WS
@imchris5000
@imchris5000 2 жыл бұрын
the gravel pits around me have a dozen or so smaller ones they mostly use them around the pit as anchors for the floating dredge thats pulling gravel from the center of the pit. they are able to anchor all 4 corners of the dredges with just 2 draglines connecting to the bucket and machines with big cables
@Oliver-kv2mm
@Oliver-kv2mm 2 жыл бұрын
I saw Big Muskie.
@ncljm1
@ncljm1 2 жыл бұрын
I’m lucky to live around several of them working. Amazing to see
@danielludwig5775
@danielludwig5775 Жыл бұрын
AMAZING WHAT CHANGES HAVE MADE IN SOUTH FLORDIA AGGREATE MINING GEGING 1970.
@jerrellkull5347
@jerrellkull5347 2 жыл бұрын
Come on man, four min on a machine, that you could barley walk around it in that amount of time. Would have been some killer shots of you standing in the bucket, or with your hands on a chain link. I mean if you don't mind getting your hands dirty...........jussayn
@DaxxTerryGreen
@DaxxTerryGreen 2 жыл бұрын
So how much power does it consume?
@arborist460
@arborist460 2 жыл бұрын
I worked around the 8020 star fire coal had in hazard and rumor was it went to a pot ash mine in Florida..?I wonder
@AlexMcNZ
@AlexMcNZ 2 жыл бұрын
"Just saw a rope shovel, loading a mobile crusher, feeding a floating conveyor, one of the most unique things ive ever seen" *Shows 10 seconds of shovel and a minute of talking about it while driving away*... Same with the A-rex video, 30 seconds of the machine and half the video wandering round the town. Im not sure if im missing the point, but I was here to see the machines, is this just a personal vlog and is there another channel for the machine stuff?
@ZoMTDU
@ZoMTDU 2 жыл бұрын
From what he said he's trying to warm up the mining community to YT
@scottpeterson796
@scottpeterson796 2 жыл бұрын
BiG mUsKiE wAs BiGgER
@chrisleach4245
@chrisleach4245 Жыл бұрын
They have a big one in Fort Myers at Youngquist rock
@shaneward6689
@shaneward6689 2 жыл бұрын
Sooo....I don't want to sound like I'm hating but what is the actual point of these videos? They are super short, contain the not even the bare minimum of the kind of content anybody watching has come to see, I would love to see tractor based footage instead of clean guy in shiny reflective vest footage. Lord knows there's a serious lack of good large equipment footage on KZbin.
@drewnelson4023
@drewnelson4023 2 жыл бұрын
I would be interested to know the manufacturer of the electrical cable they are using. That cable might be some of my companies cable we produce. Heck, I may have sold it to them!!
@floggerSG
@floggerSG 2 жыл бұрын
So... how does said drag line machine move around??
@rp1645
@rp1645 2 жыл бұрын
I believe it has what's called feet. They rotate on a big steel wheel. So think of how we are walking, then the Dragline walks by the shoes the same way. It gives the Dragline a solid base Like he was talking about the ground gravel material, under it for not allowing the Dragline to sink. The feet/ shoes if you will. Act as a stabilizer. Better than a huge track system. It's like the Dragline is sitting permanently to ground. If that helps to understand. There life is at location. The big mining Draglines in open pits. They are just dismantle at sit when done with there life. Look up ( Big Muskie)
@imchris5000
@imchris5000 2 жыл бұрын
search walking dragline walking
@funnybobjr
@funnybobjr 2 жыл бұрын
@@rp1645 you’re correct that it moves on what are called shoes but it’s not exactly the way humans walk. When still, the part that contacts the ground is called the tub, a giant cylindrical base. When the dragline goes to move, both shoes rotate and come in contact with the ground and push the tub above the ground. The rotating motion then has the tub go in an arc placing it more forward, once the tub is back in contact with the ground the shoes then come up off the ground again and the cycle can repeat.
@rp1645
@rp1645 2 жыл бұрын
@@funnybobjr Thank you so much for explaining the walking motion. I have seen it on TV, but never had as great a description as you did. Hope that help the person understand. I'm got to keep your as a reference for future information.
@donalfinn4205
@donalfinn4205 Жыл бұрын
What was all that about?
@digggerrjones7345
@digggerrjones7345 2 жыл бұрын
Man, they need to get rid of that 992 operator!! I can't believe you showed that.
@linkedmoo_man
@linkedmoo_man Жыл бұрын
Nowhere near the largest dragline. The largest dragline in operation is at Black Thunder in Wright, WY. It dwarfs this cute little thing.
@johannessamuelsson6578
@johannessamuelsson6578 10 ай бұрын
yeah the title is a bit clickbait, but he says "the biggest in Florida" in the video, so it's fine.
@michaelissocool1822
@michaelissocool1822 2 жыл бұрын
I seen this in person I live right near it,
@SchnelleKat
@SchnelleKat 2 жыл бұрын
Just curious what field or degree did you take if you went into college etc? I don't believe we have drag lines here in the Rust belt, aka Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, PA etc. My Grandfather was a Millwrights Journeyman, Still have his Hard hat even since he passed in 2014. My Inspiration.
@drivingmylifeaway7149
@drivingmylifeaway7149 Жыл бұрын
We still run drag lines in north east Ohio... Several different coal operations and gravel operations
@zodvillan5100
@zodvillan5100 Жыл бұрын
In central Ohio also just south of Columbus gravel quarry
@dennismoore9147
@dennismoore9147 2 жыл бұрын
place innc has 8400
@rubenvarela4077
@rubenvarela4077 2 жыл бұрын
Is this in Texas
@funnybobjr
@funnybobjr 2 жыл бұрын
Miami Florida
@michaelissocool1822
@michaelissocool1822 2 жыл бұрын
@@funnybobjr hialeah florida
@funnybobjr
@funnybobjr 2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelissocool1822 Is that technically separate from Miami? Had to look it up on a map and its seems like part of the same metroplex?
@michaelissocool1822
@michaelissocool1822 2 жыл бұрын
@@funnybobjr yes But considered as miami
@michaelsmith4039
@michaelsmith4039 2 жыл бұрын
Visit Peabody coals Big Kate dragline B&E 2570w
@bigchuckyinkentucky6267
@bigchuckyinkentucky6267 2 жыл бұрын
MORE INFORMATION PLEASE!
@davidanalyst671
@davidanalyst671 2 жыл бұрын
that sure is interesting, but why the hell did they build up the rock plateau that you are standing on? building level rock is not mining. This video is so confusing
@danielwright4987
@danielwright4987 2 жыл бұрын
Probably to support the weight of the machine's and stockpiles
@MFKR696
@MFKR696 2 жыл бұрын
Kinda hard to mine in an area where you can't drive a Monster Truck, let alone a dozer or drag-line, don'cha think? I guess you weren't paying attention, but he mentioned that the site was covered in a layer of muck before they did that.
@theunemployedtrucker
@theunemployedtrucker 3 ай бұрын
That must be one hell of a crusher to be using a huge rope shovel to feed it 🎉🎉🎉
@dukeallen6562
@dukeallen6562 2 жыл бұрын
That is not the biggest in the world! You have absolutely zero comparisons.
@AaronWitt
@AaronWitt 2 жыл бұрын
biggest in aggregate
@CAT972
@CAT972 2 жыл бұрын
Miami White Rock Quarries
@puirYorick
@puirYorick 2 жыл бұрын
Does anything in this mining process damage the fishing industry I wonder?
@funnybobjr
@funnybobjr 2 жыл бұрын
Not a fishing expert but likely not, since they’re an aggregate mine it pretty much means they’re just moving some kind of dirt.
@puirYorick
@puirYorick 2 жыл бұрын
@@funnybobjr ...so you didn't pay attention when he described HOW they mined the aggregates at this location. I've never seen an industrial mining operation that didn't contaminate the area waterways to *some* extent and this one seems like that is a huge part of regular operations at this site. This was just a short advert upload for one machine so not exactly an educational film on the topic that got into serious depth. A cursory look at recent water contamination problems along the FL waterways will show that it IS a growing problem and fish and wildlife die-offs are increasing.
@funnybobjr
@funnybobjr 2 жыл бұрын
@@puirYorick I know that they are putting the bucket into the water to excavate the material. If its the bucket being in the water that is what you believe could contaminate the water, maybe. There may be some grease that gets washed into the water but I'm not sure if the pins or connections even need lubrication. Which part specifically makes you believe there is contamination?
@puirYorick
@puirYorick 2 жыл бұрын
@@funnybobjr I'm sorry but I can't compensate here with a thorough review of basic Earth Sciences and Ecology and Oceanography and general Biology subjects on a KZbin video comments page. Feel free to go back to looking at all the big Tonka diggers and making vroom-vroom noises in your mind.
@manny7070
@manny7070 2 жыл бұрын
@@puirYorick also I don’t know if you realize but the draglines made all these lakes, none of those lakes at that mine were pre-existing/natural. And in reality the only “contaminates” that enter the water are grease from the dump block because there’s a grease fitting on it but our mechanics don’t over do it when it comes to greasing.
@cameltanker1286
@cameltanker1286 2 жыл бұрын
Well, that was a waste of time.
@edwinyazzie9388
@edwinyazzie9388 2 жыл бұрын
8200 is mid size. AZ has the big ONES
@privatepilot4064
@privatepilot4064 Жыл бұрын
Can we see more dragline while you narrate?
@jeeperzcreeperzz
@jeeperzcreeperzz Жыл бұрын
Not as big as "big muskie". Its like half the size 😂
@mattwoody1089
@mattwoody1089 2 жыл бұрын
Use a better host
@chriscox1943
@chriscox1943 6 ай бұрын
Less video of the presenter, more of the subject next time plz.
@daleolson3506
@daleolson3506 2 жыл бұрын
The music junked another video 👎👎👎👎💩💩😬
@Makoonga
@Makoonga Жыл бұрын
This was a waste of my time.
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